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The Plainsmen
- Vocal Trio
- (as The Victor Trio)
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What killed vaudeville? This one helped!
Weird! Weird!
Like the science fiction classic (?) "Plan 9 From Outer Space," this 3-minute short is so awful, it's fascinating!
"Soundies" were low-budget musical shorts made during WWII for use on coin-operated viewing machines called Pan-O-Rams. (Television had yet to become commonplace.) Vaudeville had been dying since the decade before, but there were plenty of struggling and retired acts still around to hire for a project like this. This short features an acrobatic trio performing a ballet type dance, with a good dose of French "Apache Dance" thrown in. The two male dancers sling the female partner back and forth, with all three performers losing parts of their break-away costumes as they go. At the conclusion, she is in her underwear and the men are in typical comic polka-dot boxer shorts and tuxedo jackets. Even with today's relaxed standards, this one is still embarrassing to watch!
Yes, I know it was intended to be funny. But you're left shaking your head at the bad taste rather than laughing. Still, as a bit of kitsch history, you won't find another like it!
Like the science fiction classic (?) "Plan 9 From Outer Space," this 3-minute short is so awful, it's fascinating!
"Soundies" were low-budget musical shorts made during WWII for use on coin-operated viewing machines called Pan-O-Rams. (Television had yet to become commonplace.) Vaudeville had been dying since the decade before, but there were plenty of struggling and retired acts still around to hire for a project like this. This short features an acrobatic trio performing a ballet type dance, with a good dose of French "Apache Dance" thrown in. The two male dancers sling the female partner back and forth, with all three performers losing parts of their break-away costumes as they go. At the conclusion, she is in her underwear and the men are in typical comic polka-dot boxer shorts and tuxedo jackets. Even with today's relaxed standards, this one is still embarrassing to watch!
Yes, I know it was intended to be funny. But you're left shaking your head at the bad taste rather than laughing. Still, as a bit of kitsch history, you won't find another like it!
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- Ted-5
- Nov 16, 2003
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- Runtime3 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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